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Purdue Boilermakers football
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The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. Purdue plays its games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette. The head coach of Purdue is Jeff Brohm, the 36th head coach in program history, the Boilermakers compete in the Big Ten Conference as a member of the West Division. Purdue had most recently been a part of the Leaders Division of the Big Ten, with a 598–545–48 record at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Purdue has the 47th-most victories among NCAA FBS programs. Purdue was originally classified as a Major College school in the 1937 season until 1972, Purdue received Division I classification in 1973, becoming a Division I-A program from 1978 to 2006 and an FBS program from 2006 to the present. Of those successful campaigns, Purdue has produced five seasons in its history, going 4–0 in 1891, 8–0 in 1892, 8–0 in 1929, 7–0–1 in 1932. The Boilermakers have won a total of 12 conference championships in their history, eight Big Ten Conference titles, the Purdue University football team traces its origin back to October 29,1887, when its team fell to Butler College by a score of 48-6 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A group of students at Purdue University formed the schools first football team in 1887, albert Berg was hired as the coach. Despite being deaf, Berg was reportedly the only man in the territory with any knowledge of the game, Berg was 23 years old when he became Purdues football coacher. He was paid $1 for each lesson he gave to the newly organized football team and had one week to prepare the team for its first game. The 1887 Purdue team played its game on October 29,1887. Butler soundly defeated Bergs squad by a score of 48–6, after the loss to Butler, Purdue did not field a football team again until 1889. In 1890, Clinton L. Hare became the head football coach at Purdue. He coached the team season to a record of 3–3. Purdue won each of its two games in convincing fashion, shutting out Wabash, 54–0, on October 24 and Illinois, 62–0. They also shut out DePauw in Greencastle, Indiana, 32–0, Purdue suffered its worst loss of the season on November 1 in Ann Arbor, falling to Michigan by a score of 34 to six. With their wins over DePauw and Wabash and their loss to Butler, hares team finished second place in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association to Butler, who beat all three of their in-state foes and was awarded the state championship. In 1891, Knowlton Ames became the coach for Purdue

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D. M. Balliet
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David Milton Pete Balliet was an American football player and coach. Balliet played as a center at Lehigh University and Princeton University, Balliet was a native of Lehighton, Pennsylvania and was born on August 25,1866. He attended preparatory school at the Meyerstown Academy and then played center for two seasons for the Lehigh University football team, in the fall of 1892, Balliet joined the Princeton Tigers football team. In September 1892, The New York Times reported, Among the promising new men who are practicing are Balliet and he played at center for Princeton during the 1892 and 1893 seasons. The 1893 Princeton team finished the season undefeated at 11–0, and was recognized as a national champion. Balliet graduated from Princeton with the class of 1894, Balliet was the second head coach in the history of Auburn Tigers football. He coached only a game for the program, a contest against Alabama played on February 22,1893 at Lakeview Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Auburn defeated Alabama in the game, the first meeting between the two schools, by a score of 32 to 22, in the fall of 1893, Balliet became the head football coach at Purdue University. He led the team to a 5–2–1 record in 1893 and 9–1 in 1894, during the 1894 season, Balliets Purdue squad defeated Amos Alonzo Staggs Chicago Maroons and outscored opponents by a collective score of 177 to 42. His 1895 squad finished with a record of 4–3, in 1897, Balliet was reported to have given up a successful law practice to join the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska. Balliet was re-hired as the coach at Purdue in September 1901. He led the 1901 Purdue team to a 4–4–1 record, but finished the season with losses to Notre Dame, Illinois. At the end of the 1901 season, Purdue opted not to renew his services, in March 1902, the Indianapolis News reported, He is known to be a good coach, but he turned out a loser last year and Purdue wants a change. In four seasons as Purdues head coach, Balliet compiled a record of 22–10–2, Balliet began the fall of 1902 back at his alma mater, Princeton, as an assistant coach. In early October, he joined the team at Washington and Lee University to assist physical director. Balliet served as the football coach at Washington and Lee for the 1903 and 1904 seasons. Balliet married Sara A. Uhrich on July 19,1894, the couple had a daughter, Catharine Urich, born on July 5,1895. He moved to Myerstown, Pennsylvania in approximately 1895 and lived there for the next 65 years, Balliet worked for most of his career as a coal salesman

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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie

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Purdue University
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Purdue University is a public research university located in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the main campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, the first classes were held on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. The main campus in West Lafayette offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 master’s and doctoral programs, in addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 900 student organizations. In 1865, the Indiana General Assembly voted to take advantage of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, communities throughout the state offered their facilities and money to bid for the location of the new college. Popular proposals included the addition of a department at Indiana State University or at what is now Butler University. By 1869, Tippecanoe County’s offer included $150,000 from Lafayette business leader and philanthropist John Purdue, $50,000 from the county, and 100 acres of land from local residents. On May 6,1869, the General Assembly established the institution in Tippecanoe County as Purdue University, classes began at Purdue on September 16,1874, with six instructors and 39 students. Professor John S. Hougham was Purdue’s first faculty member and served as acting president between the administrations of presidents Shortridge and White, a campus of five buildings was completed by the end of 1874. Purdue issued its first degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, in 1875, emerson E. White, the university’s president from 1876 to 1883, followed a strict interpretation of the Morrill Act. He intended not only to students for industrial work, but also to prepare them to be good citizens. Part of White’s plan to distinguish Purdue from classical universities included an attempt to ban fraternities. This ban was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court and led to White’s resignation. The next president, James H. Smart, is remembered for his call in 1894 to rebuild the original Heavilon Hall one brick higher after it had destroyed by a fire. Purdue’s engineering laboratories included testing facilities for a locomotive and a Corliss steam engine, one of the most efficient engines of the time. The School of Agriculture was sharing its research with farmers throughout the state with its cooperative extension services, programs in education and home economics were soon established, as well as a short-lived school of medicine. By 1925 Purdue had the largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country, President Edward C. Elliott oversaw a campus building program between the world wars. Inventor, alumnus, and trustee David E. Ross coordinated several fundraisers, donated lands to the university, ross’s gifts and fundraisers supported such projects as Ross–Ade Stadium, the Memorial Union, a civil engineering surveying camp, and Purdue University Airport. Purdue Airport was the country’s first university-owned airport and the site of the country’s first college-credit flight training courses, amelia Earhart joined the Purdue faculty in 1935 as a consultant for these flight courses and as a counselor on women’s careers

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Stuart Field
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Stuart Field was a stadium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. It was the field of the Purdue Boilermakers football team from 1892 until 1924 when Ross–Ade Stadium opened. Purdues baseball team continued to play at Stuart Field until 1939, the Elliott Hall of Music is located at Stuart Fields former site, while the west grand stand of the field was adjacent to the Purdue Armory. The field was dedicated on April 16,1892, and named for Charles B. and William V. Stuart, originally a seven-acre field with 800 seats, by the 1910s it was expanded to twice that area and a seating capacity of 5,000. Stuart Field was also used for events, including a biplane demonstration on June 13,1911. 1920s aerial photograph of Stuart Field and the Purdue Armory

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Old Oaken Bucket
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It was first awarded in 1925. Indiana and Purdue first met on the gridiron in 1891, the rivalry has been renewed annually every year in peacetime since then, except for 1903. Purdue leads the overall series 72–41–6, Indiana won the 2016 contest 26–24 in Bloomington. During that meeting Indiana alumnus Dr. Clarence Jones and Purdue alumnus Russel Gray were appointed to propose a suitable trophy, Purdue alumnus Fritz Ernst and Indiana alumnus Whiley J. Huddle were appointed to find a suitable oak bucket. They found such a bucket at the then Bruner family farm between Kent and Hanover in southern Indiana, in case of a tie, an I–P link was added. Although Samuel Woodworth was not from Indiana, the poem exemplifies the sentiment felt by the people of Indiana towards their home state. The poem was set to music in 1826 by G. F. Bing Crosby recorded a version of the poem on a Decca record on June 14,1941 with John Scott Trotter. In all,17 Purdue football players, coaches, alumni, list of most played rivalries in NCAA Division I FBS History of the Bucket

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Boilermaker Special
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The Boilermaker Special is the official mascot of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It resembles a Victorian-era railroad locomotive and is built on a truck chassis and it is operated and maintained by the student members of the Purdue Reamer Club. Purdue University is a land-grant university created through the Morrill Act of 1862, in the 1890s, Purdue became a leader in the research of railway technology. For many years Purdue operated the Schenectady No,1, and later the Schenectady No. 2, on a dynamometer in a laboratory on the West Lafayette campus. These were 4-4-0 type steam locomotives manufactured by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Schenectady was a classic Victorian-era design similar in construction to the Western and Atlantic Railroad No.3. Purdue even operated its own railroad to connect the campus powerplant to a rail line. In the 1930s the dynamometer was decommissioned and the Schenectady No.2 was retired as the industry in the United States converted from steam to diesel-electric locomotives. For many years Purdue did not have a mascot, in 1939, Purdue student Israel Selkowitz suggested the school adopt an official mascot to represent Purdues engineering heritage. He originally proposed a mechanical man, after much debate, it was decided to build a locomotive on an automobile chassis. This choice allowed the mascot to build on Purdues engineering and railroading heritage, the Boilermaker nickname came about during the early years of Purdue football. There had been rumors the university enrolled burly boilermakers from the Monon Railroad shops in Lafayette, when a railroad operated an extra train independent of the scheduled timetable, it was known as a special. Thus, the trains which carried Purdues sporting teams and their fans to other cities for athletic contests were known as Boilermaker Specials, the Boilermaker Special I was introduced in 1940. The locomotive body was constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and installed on a 1939 Champion automobile chassis donated by the Studebaker Corporation, the chassis had a 6-cylinder in-line gasoline engine and a three-speed manual transmission. The gearshift was on the steering column, the cab contained a single bench seat for the driver and one passenger. Although the coal tender area was not designed for passengers, two passengers could sit on top the wheel fenders, the cab had two sheetmetal doors, one on each side, each of which had a window. Although the cab had a windshield, the back only had an opening with no glass. This meant the wind and weather would enter the cab from the back, the bell and the whistle on the boiler are believed to have been donated by the Monon Railroad shops in Lafayette

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Cradle of Quarterbacks
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The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. Purdue plays its games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette. The head coach of Purdue is Jeff Brohm, the 36th head coach in program history, the Boilermakers compete in the Big Ten Conference as a member of the West Division. Purdue had most recently been a part of the Leaders Division of the Big Ten, with a 598–545–48 record at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Purdue has the 47th-most victories among NCAA FBS programs. Purdue was originally classified as a Major College school in the 1937 season until 1972, Purdue received Division I classification in 1973, becoming a Division I-A program from 1978 to 2006 and an FBS program from 2006 to the present. Of those successful campaigns, Purdue has produced five seasons in its history, going 4–0 in 1891, 8–0 in 1892, 8–0 in 1929, 7–0–1 in 1932. The Boilermakers have won a total of 12 conference championships in their history, eight Big Ten Conference titles, the Purdue University football team traces its origin back to October 29,1887, when its team fell to Butler College by a score of 48-6 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A group of students at Purdue University formed the schools first football team in 1887, albert Berg was hired as the coach. Despite being deaf, Berg was reportedly the only man in the territory with any knowledge of the game, Berg was 23 years old when he became Purdues football coacher. He was paid $1 for each lesson he gave to the newly organized football team and had one week to prepare the team for its first game. The 1887 Purdue team played its game on October 29,1887. Butler soundly defeated Bergs squad by a score of 48–6, after the loss to Butler, Purdue did not field a football team again until 1889. In 1890, Clinton L. Hare became the head football coach at Purdue. He coached the team season to a record of 3–3. Purdue won each of its two games in convincing fashion, shutting out Wabash, 54–0, on October 24 and Illinois, 62–0. They also shut out DePauw in Greencastle, Indiana, 32–0, Purdue suffered its worst loss of the season on November 1 in Ann Arbor, falling to Michigan by a score of 34 to six. With their wins over DePauw and Wabash and their loss to Butler, hares team finished second place in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association to Butler, who beat all three of their in-state foes and was awarded the state championship. In 1891, Knowlton Ames became the coach for Purdue

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Purdue Pete
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Purdue Pete is a mascot of Purdue University. Despite his visible and constant on-field presence at Purdue sporting events, the official mascot of Purdue is the Boilermaker Special. Purdue Pete was first designed as a logo by the University Bookstore in 1940 and they would put it on their products and portray him dressed up in different clothes for the different majors. He got the Purdue part of his name from Purdue University, the owners of the bookstores gave him the name “Pete”, yet no one officially knows why this was chosen to be his name. He was given an identity in 1956 as he came out. Over the years, the appearance of Purdue Pete has gone under several changes as well as several minor changes. His original head was made of paper-mâché, pasted onto a wire frame. This was very inconvenient for the person who would be underneath because it would limit his movements, yet he was expected to move around. This head was changed to a giant fiberglass head where the person inside would use a harness to support it and this was impractical due to the sheer size of it. In the 1980s, Purdue Pete acquired the appearance he is now associated with, proposals to switch to a soft-sculpture costume were rejected in 2006 and 2011. From 1997 to 2007, Purdue Pete had a sidekick named Rowdy, Rowdy was a ten-foot-tall inflatable mascot who represented a young future Boilermaker. He was the idea of Jan Winger, Purdues administrative assistant of athletic public relations, Purdue Pete’s uniforms are old gold and black, which are Purdue’s school colors. The hammer that Purdue Pete carries is an icon that signifies him as a boilermaker, back in the days of the boilermakers, they would use large mallets to mold the steel into boilers or pipes or even bridges. The hammer is also a symbol of strength, power, Purdue Pete’s hardhat only helps solidify this image in the minds of anyone who sees him. Purdue Pete being identified as a boilermaker helps connect him with his fellow Purdue Boilermakers in the stands, Purdue Pete’s giant head could be something used to draw attention to him, which helps him get the fans pumped up. Purdue Pete could be seen as a symbol and he is recognized as being a Boilermaker. Yet, underneath his big, iconic head, he is just a student and this is symbolic of the fact that we are also Boilermaker on the inside. Since we can’t see who is underneath, it allows the audience to put themselves in his place, the current head utilizes a fiberglass frame, but is much smaller and lighter than previous designs because it is made primarily of a composite

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Purdue Wreck
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The Purdue Wreck was a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 31,1903, which killed 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team. It was to be played for the first time at a field at Washington Park in Indianapolis. Seventeen passengers in the first coach were killed when the lead special collided with a train after rounding a curve at the Mill Street Power House near 18th Street in Indianapolis. Thirteen of the dead were members of the Purdue football team, a fourteenth player died of his injuries in November 1903. Due to a breakdown in communication, the crew of the train was not aware the specials were approaching. They backed their train onto the line just before the lead special arrived. The engineer of the special was able to throw the engine into reverse, set the brake, and jump clear of his engine, after the impact, the uninjured passengers in the coaches further back wasted little time in coming to the aid of the wounded up ahead. According to Joseph Bradfield, then a Purdue student riding in the procession, “We began carrying the people out, there was a line of horse-and-buggies along the whole stretch there for half a mile. Stone, comforted the injured and dying, others ran back up the track to stop the next special 10 minutes behind, one of the passengers was future Governor of Indiana Harry G. Leslie. While at Purdue, Leslie was captain of both the football and baseball teams and became one of the schools immortal players. As one of the star players, his team was on course to win the state championship in 1903. During the collision, one member of the team landed on his feet and was unharmed after being thrown out a window. Initially seventeen victims, including Leslie, were pronounced dead at the scene, another victim died of his injuries a day or two later. A few hours later at the morgue, as the prepared to embalm Leslies body, they discovered he still had a pulse. Barely alive, he needed several operations and lingered near death for several weeks and his recovery was slow, but he eventually regained his health, although he walked with the aid of a cane for the remainder of his life. He returned to school at the end of 1904 and after another year he graduated with a degree in law and his survival of the Purdue Wreck received significant attention across the state and he became a famous folk hero. Memorial Gymnasium was constructed in 1909 on the Purdue University campus to honor the memory of those who perished, the stairway leading to the front door has one step for each of the 17 victims. To mark the centennial of the Wreck in 2003, a tunnel in Purdues Ross-Ade Stadium was dedicated to the victims, the Purdue football team passes through the tunnel at the beginning and end of each home game

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Hail Purdue!
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Hail Purdue. is the official fight song of Purdue University. The lyrics were written in about 1912 by James Morrison, the completed song was published in 1913, initially titled Purdue War Song, and was dedicated to the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, of which Wotawa was a student member and director. During the rest following the lyric, Thus we raise our song anew, it is popular to raise one fist and shout and this chant was invented by Arnette Tiller early in her husbands time as Purdues head football coach. The Purdue All-American Marching Band interjects, Fire up, at the same point in the song, as they have traditionally done since the mid-1970s. Hail Purdue. and soundclips to other songs performed by the Purdue University Bands

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Purdue All-American Marching Band
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The Purdue All-American Marching Band is the marching band of Purdue University and the main source of auxiliary entertainment for Purdue Boilermakers football games. The AAMB is also the host band of the Indianapolis 500 race, the band has grown from an original 5 members to 389 members. The three most distinctive features of the AAMB are the Worlds Largest Drum, the Purdue Golden Girl featured twirler, and the Block P, in 1886 the Purdue Student Army Training Corps formed a five-member drum corps to play music for the cadets during their morning conditioning marches. While operating without a director until 1904, the band had started playing at Purdue football games and had grown to over 50 members, however, during this time it played sporadically, as there was no consistent director. Additionally, the band received almost no training and had to provide most of their own equipment, in 1904, Paul Spotts Emrick, a freshman from Rochester, joined the band. His experience as a conductor resulted in his election as band president, during his senior year at Purdue in 1907, the band became the first to break ranks and form a letter on the field—the famous Block P. I used to wonder if you could do that with men drilling, the Block P has been performed during each pre-game performance ever since its inception. Emrick stayed on as director after his graduation in 1908, in 1921 Emrick commissioned the Leedy Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis to construct the worlds largest bass drum. The Big Bass Drum has been a part of the band ever since. In 1935, during a Purdue football game at Northwestern University the band donned lights on their uniforms while performing at halftime. Emrick retired in 1954, and to date the band has been under the direction of just five other men, moffit Joseph Manfredo Dr. David A. Leppla Jay S. Gephart Second director Al Wright added many show band traditions to the All-American Marching Band. He increased the size of the band, added baton twirlers, Wright built upon the patriotism suggested in the All-American name of the band by creating the I Am An American speech. This speech is read during each pre-game performance while the band plays America the Beautiful, in 2012 the Band also traveled to Dublin, Ireland for the Saint Patricks Day Parade. In 2015, the AAMB traveled to Medellin, Colombia for the Feria de las Flores, in 1995 the All-American Marching Band was the recipient of the Sudler Trophy, the most prestigious award a college marching band can receive. Currently, the All-American Marching Band is the band from a university without a school of music to have received this award. The Purdue band is famous for its four Featured Twirler positions, the Golden Girl, the Girl in Black. Purdues Golden Girl ranks among the nations best twirlers and is at the top of her art form and this talented performer is selected by audition each April, and serves as a leader of the AAMB as well as an ambassador for Purdue University. Recognized nationally for her talents, this coveted position has roots going back to the early history of Purdue Bands